Online Course: Student Thinking at the Core

Posted by on November 25, 2013

Session Description:

Go Global in the new year:
Join us for an exciting opportunity to connect with diverse educators from around the world.  Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN) is offering a free opportunity to take a youth engagement focused Coursera course as a cohort.  Our PYN cohort will watch course videos, engage in discussion and complete projects together as part of a global classroom.  You will be learning with professional educators from all over the world.  By taking the course with other Philadelphia educators you’ll be able to put your work into our local context.  Student Thinking at the Core is offered by Vanderbuilt University and runs for 4 weeks beginning Monday January 27th.   This course explores how teachers can capitalize on what students bring to the classroom – their ideas, perceptions, and misunderstandings – to advance the learning and engage all students in the class.

https://www.coursera.org/#course/corethink

The PYN Cohort would meet once a week for the length of the course.

What’s Coursera?
Coursera, is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)  organization that offers free online classes taught by prestigious professors at universities to the general public. They offer a wide range of course topics from physics and biology to art, history, and education. We would like to work through and facilitate one of these courses with you.  We believe that open source learning tools like Coursera will begin to affect not only adult professional development but secondary education for your students as well.  This is an opportunity to learn more about this approach to education and connect with educators all over the world.

Interested?  You’ll need to do 3 things.

Sign up for the PYN Coursera Orientation on December 18, 2013 at 1:30.  Here you’ll learn about how PYN will facilitate this experience and exactly what is required of you as a participant.  Sign Up Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pyn-coursera-orientation-tickets-9357934835
Register for the Student Thinking at the Core PYN cohort on EventBrite. Sign Up Here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philadelphia-coursera-cohort-student-thinking-at-the-core-tickets-9361543629
Sign up for your individual Coursera Account and Register for the course.  Sign Up Here:  http://www.coursera.org